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That snapping-jawed, tight-lipped fighter, that paladin in sailor's pants, Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, for eight years U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey, put a period last week to the most imposing paragraph of hard, successful work which any American has done in the Near East since the World...
...Admiral Bristol is the only pearl in our yoke of thorns!" cried the official Turkish newspaper Milliet last week, and its editor declared himself "inflamed with consuming anguish at the departure of our Great Friend." What has Mark Lambert Bristol, hard-swearing quarterdeck-man, done to draw such a halo of fulsome Turkish affection around his trim Admiral...
...Mark Bristol's good offices in Turkey began when the Allies occupied Constantinople after the War. The French, the English, the Italians and the defeated Turks were perpetually rowing with one another&$151;usually at the expense of the Turks. Admiral Bristol, fair-play fighter, settled a good many of the rows by the intervention of his keen, strong personality-very often on the side of underdog Turks...
When the Young Turk Party seized the Government (1922) and (1923) transferred the Turkish Capital to Angora in Asia Minor, out of range of Allied warships, Admiral Bristol immediately sensed that the new regime of President-Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha was healthy, and, in any case, unshakable. While the U. S. Department of State was beginning to wonder whether it would recognize the Young Turk Government, Admiral Bristol strode into the office of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, and two fighting men shook hands (1924). Up to that time no Allied representative had called on Kemal. Soon or late, all took...
Since the present relations of the U. S. and Turkey are more than usually amicable (due to Admiral Bristol) there remains for his successor chiefly the task of devising with Turkish statesmen some means whereby the U. S. Senate may eventually be brought to recognize as a fait accompli the post-War status of Turkey. Other nations have done this by ratifying the Lausanne Treaty, but the U. S. continues to refuse, chiefly because many U. S. clergymen still heatedly allege the "oppression" of Christians in Turkey...